Is not the freedom taken from life when the parent has expectations. It is the parents responsibility to manifest their beliefs and if the offspring finds them attractive then so be it and they will build upon it as if it was theirs.
Can you see perfection in your life?
I remember my first introduction into the concept, I saw it as a sun (totally undefinable) and I thought of it as being as far from me as I envisioned the sun to be from me.
But then I began to see it in small things, a test score with the word prefect next...
Your example compares a thought that one likes to a thought that one doesn't likes, if you want to say one thought is in contrast to the other because of the emotion, ok. So thoughts can have contrast and emotion can have contrast but a thought is not in contrast to emotion.
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We have different views of the mind, I see it as the container in which we experience the duality and decide on whether we like something or not. No problem.
Now, I'm really lost, if emotion is but an expression of the mind how can it be thought of as part of a duality?
My question is can you give me an example of mind manifesting emotion?
It may or may not be rare but the word guard just seems counter productive. We hire people to protect either us or that which we possess from basically ourselves instead of focusing on the problem that produced the situation that required a guard.
Still not clear for me, could you give me an example of the mind manifesting emotion, I can say thinking and not thinking or feeling and not feeling, the mind for me is tool, we use it of we don't use it.